What's The best Ways To Breed Iowa Blues With Different Breeds?

[The Moonshiner]

You can't just grab a few breeds or mixed breeds and breed them together and get Iowa Blues.
If you understood genetics and had the right birds to start with you could probably breed them into something very similar within a decade or so.

 

[MysteryChicken]

They were developed from Leghorns, Dorkings and Plymouth Rocks.
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGK/Lamona/BRKLamona.html
Their attraction was a very productive non setter that was for both eggs and meat that was fast maturing.
https://www.sandhillpreservation.com/american-breeds

Okay.

 

[MysteryChicken]

You can't just grab a few breeds or mixed breeds and breed them together and get Iowa Blues.
If you understood genetics and had the right birds to start with you could probably breed them into something very similar within a decade or so.

Iowa Blues never got recognized, so technically they aren't an official breed. Still considered a mystery "mutt," or a nicer term: mixed breed, pretty much.

 

[The Moonshiner]

The breed club members and other breeders would disagree with you about that.
For me they're not a "breed" I'd be interested in so either way doesn't matter to me.
So if they're just mutts or mixed breeds why not just throw the label on whatever birds you got laying around and run with it?

 

[MysteryChicken]

The breed club members and other breeders would disagree with you about that.
For me they're not a "breed" I'd be interested in so either way doesn't matter to me.
So if they're just mutts or mixed breeds why not just throw the label on whatever birds you got laying around and run with it?

We'll see.

Plus, I just don't do that type of thing anyways.

At least you, & I both agree they're not a breed.

 

[nicalandia]

I don't own Iowa Blues, but want to recreate them with help.

Why? There is absolutely nothing outstanding about them in term of phenotype (Wild pattern Birchen based, single comb, unfeathered shanks, red earlobes, normal feathering, four toes, lay brown-tinted eggs) and I am sure they are average egg layers.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Why? There is absolutely nothing outstanding about them in term of phenotype (Wild pattern Birchen based, single comb, unfeathered shanks, red earlobes, normal feathering, four toes, lay brown-tinted eggs) and I am sure they are average egg layers.

I like their patterning, & the mystery behind the chicken.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I'm fueled on mystery, & the impossible, & everything in between.

 

[nicalandia]

I like their patterning, & the mystery behind the chicken.

Oh the Mystery about the Chicken genetics, it's a rabbit hole you will never get out of it.

 

[nicalandia]

I'm fueled on mystery, & the impossible, & everything in between.

If Only you could stay with a project, that way you will ensure you finish a task, but I know the feeling and being overburden with too many genetic/breeding projects you know you will need two lifetimes to accomplish.